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Administrator Role Assigned to an Okta User

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Administrator Role Assigned to an Okta User

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Identifies when an administrator role is assigned to an Okta user. An adversary may attempt to assign an administrator role to an Okta user in order to assign additional permissions to a user account and maintain access to their target’s environment.

Rule type: query

Rule indices:

filebeat-*
logs-okta*

Severity: medium

Risk score: 47

Runs every: 5 minutes

Searches indices from: now-6m (Date Math format, see also Additional look-back time)

Maximum alerts per execution: 100

References:

Tags:

Elastic
Okta
SecOps
Monitoring
Continuous Monitoring

Version: 6 (version history)

Added (Elastic Stack release): 7.11.0

Last modified (Elastic Stack release): 8.4.0

Rule authors: Elastic

Rule license: Elastic License v2

Potential false positives

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Administrator roles may be assigned to Okta users by a Super Admin user. Verify that the behavior was expected. Exceptions can be added to this rule to filter expected behavior.

Investigation guide

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Rule query

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event.dataset:okta.system and
event.action:user.account.privilege.grant

Threat mapping

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Framework: MITRE ATT&CK^TM

Tactic:
- Name: Persistence
- ID: TA0003
- Reference URL: https://attack.mitre.org/tactics/TA0003/
Technique:
- Name: Account Manipulation
- ID: T1098
- Reference URL: https://attack.mitre.org/techniques/T1098/

Rule version history

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Version 6 (8.4.0 release)

Formatting only

Version 4 (7.13.0 release)

Formatting only

Version 3 (7.12.0 release)

Formatting only

Version 2 (7.11.2 release)

Formatting only

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